Ever the multitasker, Michelle Yeoh tightens her glutes whereas she tones her pores and skin. After patting on Helena Rubinstein’s glow-boosting essence, she runs Medicube’s Age R Derma Shot over her jawline for a contouring therapeutic massage—then, the remainder of her day can start. Herewith, uncover the Oscar Winner and The Brothers Solar star’s secrets and techniques for skincare squats and a radiant, 10-minute make-up look.

“Usually once I’m doing all this, I’m doing my squats,” she shares as she massages her face, “Bear in mind, you are able to do your kicks, you are able to do your stretches, while you’re additionally waking up.” As she revives herself farther with a cooling eye therapeutic massage, the Malaysia native explains the muse behind her brisk skincare strategy.

“My earliest reminiscence of taking good care of my pores and skin is seeing my mother do that on daily basis—morning and night time,” she says. “She does all these unimaginable issues the place she’s, like, doing martial arts on her face.” The outcomes, it could appear, communicate for themselves. “She’s 83 and he or she appears to be like gorgeous,” Yeoh avows.

Smoothing a Helena Rubinstein day cream over her face and neck, the 61-year-old says: “That is just like the warmup therapeutic massage for the face and the neck, and all of the lymph nodes that encompass them.” After tapping her fingers over the whole space—inviting her lymphatic system to get up, too—Yeoh raises a glass to a different magnificence secret. “Together with your pores and skin, crucial factor is ingesting water,” she says. “That basically helps. When you’ve got good pores and skin, that units up a phenomenal canvas for you to have the ability to paint in your make-up.”

Talking of which, Yeoh likes hers on the sunshine facet. Patting on Shiseido’s sheer basis, she says: “One factor I’ve realized is, when you’ve got make-up that’s too thick, it tends to focus on the creases.” Clé de Peau concealer comes subsequent, gently masking the reminders of Yeoh’s “youthful, wild” days. “I used to remain out within the solar for too lengthy, with out utilizing the proper merchandise,” she says.

Nevertheless—in contrast to many a wild youth—Yeoh by no means fell sufferer to over-plucking. “One factor my mother all the time taught me was, don’t let anyone pluck your eyebrows,” she says, brushing out her naturally full pair earlier than filling them in with Anastasia’s Forehead Definer.